Mayor William H. White has
announced the appointment of
Marion E. Harvie, Director of the
Village's Drug Education and
Counseling Center, to serve as
Administrator-Director of the
recently adopted Employee
Assistance Program for the
Village of Freeport.
"We value the employee as an
individual as well as a worker,"
he said, "and it is our policy to
make every effort to retain
valuable employees who may
develop chronic problems that im-pair
their work performance
and/or attendance. It is in the
interest of strengthening our
continuing efforts to deal with
troubled employees that we have
established our Program, which
offers a neutral screening and
referral center for troubled
employees to seek assistance."
According to Mayor White, "a
troubled employee is defined as
one whose personal problems
may include, but not be limited
to, alcoholism and other forms of
chemical dependency. Exper-ience
has shown that a majority of
performance problems will be the
result of alcohol abuse. It is said
that in the United States, one out
of every ten people who drink will
contract the disease of Alco-holism...
some 10 million people
in the country...so chances are
pretty good that some of them
work for us here in the Village of
Freeport, and we believe that
proper implementation of this
program will result in greater
productivity. It is, therefore, the
responsibility of department
heads and supervisors at all levels
of management to identify sub-standard
work performance or un-acceptable
job behavior and take
appropriate corrective action.
"Though alcoholism is still an
awkward subject of conversation
for many people," the Mayor
continued, "it is nonetheless in-creasingly
recognized as one of
our nation's three major health
problems...topped only by heart
disease and cancer. It is also
being recognized as a problem
that some 300 companies and
government agencies throughout
this country are doing something
about. We believe the Village of
Freeport is one of the first village
governments in the country to
implement such a program."
In making the announcement,
Mayor White stressed how
important it is to fully understand
that as an employer, "the Vil-lage's
concern with alcoholism
and other sources of personal
problems is strictly limited to its
effect on the employee's job per-formance
and/or on-the-job
behavior. There is no intent to
intrude upon the private life of an
employee. Our Employee Assist-ance
Program is designed solely
to aid supervisors in helping
troubled employees correct sub-standard
job performance.''
Broadly outlined, the new
Employee Assistance Program
offers confidential counseling to
any employee seeking help
voluntarily or through referral by
his/her supervisor. Any contact
with the program is treated in the
strictest confidence and does not
become part of an employee's
personnel record. There is no
charge to the employee nor to a
family member for the Employee
Assistance Service. However,
should it be determined there is
need for continued professional or
medical help there will likely be a
fee. Health insurance coverage
will usually pay all or part of the
fees for service on medical and/or
emotional health related prob-lems.
No employee or family
member is ever denied service
through the Employee Assistance
Program. Ms. Harvie has been
conducting training programs for
all supervisory staff to enable
them to better understand
alcoholism, to learn how to spot a
troubled employee, and how to
respond most helpfully to the
situation. Her office will help
employees find suitable treat-ment.
Though the initial focus of
employee assistance will be on
alcoholism, the program also
counsels and refers employees
with any kind of serious personal
problem that interferes with their
jobs.
"By acting responsibly and
speaking frankly," Mayor White
said that he hopes the Village's
attitude will contribute to making
alcoholism a less secretive and
stigmatizing sickness than in the
past, and that it will help to create
APRIL 1979
Freeport Human Relations
Director Michael Kirwan is
warning residents that a man,
claiming to be representing the
Nassau County Assessor's office,
is making calls to various areas of
the Village. He reportedly tells
residents that someone will be
visiting them shortly to assess
their property. He also reportedly
offers the information that when
the County finishes its reassess-ments,
the Village of Freeport
will be dissolved with portions
going to Baldwin, Roosevelt and
Merrick.
"This has all the earmarks of
illegal block busting," Kirwan
points out. "The County has no
such person under its employ.
The dissolvement of the Village is
not being contemplated by any
level of government.''
Kirwan urges all residents
receiving such calls to try to
solicit a phone number where the
man can be reached and then call
the Human Relations Office at
FR 8-4000. As in all cases, no one
claiming to represent a govern-mental
agency should be allowed
into a house without first pre-senting
official identification.
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a wider understanding of the
nature of the disease. He also
expressed his hope that the
various civic association, syna-gogues,
churches and other
service organizations within our
community will avail themselves
of Ms. Harvie's services in re-questing
her to conduct ed-ucational
programs throughout
our community on this very
important subject.
The Employee Assistance
Center is available to all employ-ees
and their families. Anyone
seeking help can remain anony-mous
if they choose to. Ms.
Harvie can be reached on Ex-tension
294 or by visiting Room
G12 on the lower level of Village
Hall.
A PUBLIC INFORMATION BULLETIN OF THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT
46 NORTH OCEAN AVENUE TELEPHONE FReeport 8-4000 WILLIAM H. WHITE. MAYOR
Public Meetings On The 1st and 3rd Mondays Of The Month, At 8:00 P.M.
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C.James Clark and Timothy C.
Peternana were elected to serve
four year terms on the Village
Board of Trustees on March 20.
The were installed on April 2.
Trustee Clark had been a
member of the Village's Planning
Board for the past two years. He
is owner and president of a
funeral home in the Village which
he helped to found 26 years ago.
He has been a Freeport resident
for 19 years. The new Trustee has
been active in the Freeport Fire
Department for many years as he
has been with Our Holy Re-deemer
Church Parish. He is also
a member of several service
organizations. He and his wife,
{Catherine, raised five daughters
in the Village.
Trustee Peternana had been a
member of the Zoning Board of
Appeals for the past two years.
He has been the Pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church for the
past ten years and a resident for
the same period. Trustee Peter-nana
also served the Freeport
government as a member of the
Mayor's Committee on Rent
Control and the Mayor's Com-munity
Development Citizens
Advisory Committee. He has also
held several posts within Nassau
County. He has been President of
both the Freeport Kiwanis Club
and the Interfaith Clergy Council
and is active in many other local
organizations. He and his wife,
Patricia, have a son and daughter
enrolled in the Freeport School
District.
Mayor William White (second from right) received an "Archi 1979"
Design Award at recent ceremonies of the Long Island chapter of the
American Institute of Architects. One of two Special Community
DevelopmentAwards.it was in recognition of the Freeport Mall. Over
80 entries were received from Nassau and Suffolk Counties. As chair-man
of the Awards Committee, HUD Regional Director and past
president of the local AIA Chapter, Joseph Monticciolo presented the
plaque to the Mayor. Bernard Rothzeid (left), architect of the Mall, and
Freeport Community Development Director James Dunne (right) were
present to share in the accolades.
Discount plans to the Freeport
Recreation Center's Health Wing
are now discounted at a mid-season
rate. Cost for a family is
$25 and for an individual, $10.
Plans will be honored until May
31 when the summer season
begins. Please note that the
Center will be closed for re-furbishing
from Monday, May 14
to Friday, May 25.
Discount plans allow for unlim-ited
admissions to the Center's
indoor pool, gymnasium, exercise
room, dressing rooms and steam
and sauna facilities.
Trustees: Dorothy Storm, Alfred Sirlin, James Clark, Timothy Peternana
Village Clerk: Thomas DeVincenzo - Treasurer: James J. Lyons-Counsel: Michael Solomon
The roar of the big off-shore
power boats win be heard again in
Freeport as the Village, for the
second year, is on the race circuit
fa? the exciting, expensive and
dangerous sport of ocean racing.
Date for this year's race is
Saturday, June 2 with a can-cellation
date of June 3. Race
headquarters will again be at the
Gray Lombardo Marina, foot of
Gay Lombardo Avenue.
Tentative plans call for a
parade of the boats and racers on
Thursday, May. 31. The boats
w9H be on public display at the
Marina all dav Friday. The boats
wffl leave the Marina at 10 am on
Saturday heading out for the
starting line in Jones Inlet. Many
Freeporters found that departure
to be a thrilling sight last year.
The race itself is over a 170-mile
course extending from Ambrose
As warm weather arrives, there
wiU be more and more activity on
the Village's waterfront and
waterways. In the delicate
balance of nature, heavy usage of
Freeport's greatest natural
assets, also endangers them.
The Freeport Police Depart-
Effisfflt maimining a Marine Division
wMch patrols the Village's inland
waterways. Offshore waters are
potooied by the Town of Hemp-stead
Bay Constables and the
U.S. Coast Guard. These authori-ties
are enpowered to enforce all
lows by summons and/or arrest.
BOATERS: Obey all posted
speed limits. Remember you are
responsible for your own wake.
Bring aboard a receptable for
tosh, etc. DO NOT OTTER. Stay
wWffln marked channels and show
common courtesy to other boaters
far everyone's safety. Young
psojjJs under age 16 are required
to foave a New York State Young
Boatmen's Certificate to handle a
Light to Fire Island. The course is
completed in between two or
three hours depending on weath-er
conditions. There will be an
area set aside in Jones Inlet for
spectator boats and if the day is
clear, part of the race may be
seen from the beaches. The
public is also welcome to follow
the race through communications
at the Marina.
The race is sponsored by the
South Bay Performance Associa-tion
of Patchoqne in cooperation
with the Freeport Chamber of
Commerce and the Village
government. The race last year
was responsible for bringing
hundreds of visitors to Freeport's
motels, restaurants, etc.
Further information will be
published in next month's
"Village News."
power boat. Follow all Coast
Guard regulation as to safety —
life jackets, fueling procedures,
etc.
WATERFRONT BUSINESSES:
Business refuse must not be
disposed of in the canals or other
waterways. Provide a sufficient
number of waste receptables for
the use of customers. THOSE
FOUND GUILTY OF LITTERING
ARE SUBJECT TO FINES OF UP
TO $250.
WATERFRONT HOME-OWNERS:
Household refuse
must not be disposed of in the
canals or other waterways.
Provide a sufficent number of
waste receptables in the backyard
for the use of family and guests.
Grass clippings and other yard
materials may not be thrown in
the waters. THOSE FOUND
GUILTY OF LITTERING ARE
SUBJECT TO FINES OF UP TO
$250.
The annual parade of the
William Clinton Story Post of the
American Legion and other Free-port
veterans group will be held
on Memorial Day which is ob-served
on Wednesday, May 30.
The parade will start at 10 am
at the Freeport High School from
where marchers will go south on
Brookside Avenue to Merrick
Road and then east to the Free-port
Memorial Library at Merrick
Road and Ocean Avenue where
. memorial services will be held.
Honorable Grand Marshals will
be Sam Gerber and C.H. Larsen.
Honorary Marshals will be Frank
Manz, Fred Hager, Ed License
and Bill Helland. Co-Chairmen of
this year's parade will be Charles
Jackson (868-5373) and James
Miessau (868-7191).
Groups wishing to participate
in the parade should contact one
of the Co-Chairmen.
Grants for property improve-ments
are available, through
Community Development funds,
to persons .meeting certain in-come
guidelines.
The grants, however, cover the
correction of code violations only.
Such violations are clearly de-fined
by the Village codes as
enforced by the Freeport Building
Department. Property improve-ment/
low-interest loans, on the
other hand, may be used for any
renovation work as long as no
code violations exist.
Income limits for GRANTS, for
the Village-wide program are:
$7,450, one person; $8,500, two
persons; $9,600, three persons;
$10,650, four persons; $11,500,
five persons; $12,350, six per-sons;
$13,200, seven persons; and
$14,050, eight persons.
For futher information contact
the Freeport Community Devel-opment
Agency, 50 Liberty Ave.
On Sunday, March 11, mem-bers
of the volunteer Freeport
Fire Department, along with
members of the Village Board of
Trustees, held ceremonies, in-stolfas
a memorial to late Fire-man
Jessy P. Cotigmola. Coti-gnola,
who died fighting a fire on
the Freeport Mall in January,
1978, became the Village's first
fireman to lose his life in the line
of duty.
The memorial was created by
the firemen of Engine Company
who fought side by side with
Cotignola in the fatal fire. It may
be viewed in the lobby of Village
Hall close to the Ocean Avenue
entrance.
Martin A. Silberg, 39, pre-sently
a resident of Jericho, has
been selected by the Freeport
Board of Trustees to assume the
post of Business Development
Specialist, which is funded
through .federal^. Community
Development monies.
Silberg began his real estate
soles career in 1961 starting
Silberg & Company in 1964 and
tiie Aaron & Silberg Real Estate
Appraisal Co. two years later.
The firms deal with commercial
and industrial real estate in-cluding
the sale and leasing of
industrial buildings, enclosed
malls regional shopping centers,
retail and office building site
work, neighborhood shopping
center management, and sale of
chopping centers and other
fcacome properties. As an in-dependent
real estate appraiser,
he has prepared reports for the
Town of Oyster Bay in con-junction
with municipal con-demnations
and sale of public
From 1969 to 1972, Silberg
worked with the Friendly Ice
Cream Corp. to lead an orderly
process of site acquisition by
developing site evaluations and
preparation of area market
studies for selection of proper
sites. He negotiated with owners
aiad owners' legal counsel for the
purchase or lease of their proper-ties
and conducted public hear-ings
before Town Boards for
variances and special exceptions.
Silberg also acted as a trouble
shooter for Friendly 's at the
municipal level and acted as their
representative to the Internation-al
Council of Shopping Centers.
On a community level, Silberg
is the regional admissions inter-viewer
for Union College, Sche-nectady,
from which he gradu-ated
with a B.A. in economics. He
is also community chairman for
the both the American Heart
Association and the United
Jewish Appeal. He is married
with two children.
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ccofotord wore preoenf recently at the Freeport Recast Ion Ccsster-.
They were attending the annual Northeast Regional Dance Conference,
sponsored by the American Dance Guild in cooperation with the Frese-port
Arts Council and the village Recreation Department. Attendees
had a "once in a lifettime" opportunity to see famed dance Maria
Theresa, now in her 80's, perform. According to the sponsors, every-one
was impressed with the center and the cooperation, and look
forward to other joint efforts.
position, Mayor William White
pointed out that the Board had
interviewed several excellent
candidates for the position.
"However, considering that this
position is being created to attract
additional businesses to the Mall,
North Main Street and other
areas, and to bring about the
sound development of the vacant
Bennington Park land, Mr.
Silberg's background offers the
best potential. His knowledge of
Long Island and even Freeport is
most impressive. He, as well as
the other candidates, seemed
most enthusiastic about what
Freeport has to offer businesses
such as municipal, low-cost and
dependable electricity. Another
incentive now is the federal
monies available to us to assist in
development."
The Mayor said Mr. Silberg's
offices are located in Village Hall.
He is working with Village Clerk
Tom DeVincenzo and Publicity
Director Jean Peters, with the
three reporting directy to Mayor
White.
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appointment to the full-time
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Tell him how the Village's Community Develop-ment
Funds are being used to modernize our
Central Business District and to assemble land
which can be offered at write-down prices. Tell
him the local government stands ready to be of
every assistance possible, in locating his business
in Freeport.
